SuperJetShoes
@SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world
- Comment on WhatsApp backups on Android will soon count toward your Google Account storage 1 year ago:
They’ve been playing the long game here…encroaching on your Drive storage for years
- Gmails didn’t used to count towards storage
- Photos didn’t used to count towards storage (unless stored in “Original” quality)
I’m wagering “Location Data” will be along soon. Then “number of passwords stored”.
Next move will be “number of connected devices”, even though that doesn’t impact how much they have to store.
Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).
- Comment on Seriously??? 1 year ago:
Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.
I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.
As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”
- Comment on Seriously??? 1 year ago:
I hate that this is even a thing.
- Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story
They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.
But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.
It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.
Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.
- Comment on apple users in a nutshell 1 year ago:
Android User here. Never owned any Apple device.
But they’re fucking good quality. Anyone can see that. So what’s the problem?
I like Android 'cos I like dicking about with it. Some people don’t want to dick about with their phones, they want to do other stuff that could be more interesting.
- Comment on For the Fallen 1 year ago:
For all fallen, from any conflict, from any side.
They gave their lives.
- Comment on Humane’s AI Pin (smartphone that projects on to your palm) launching soon @ $699 + 24$/mo subscription + integrates with openAI 1 year ago:
What a shame. A lot of guys will have worked hard on this, perhaps going on a journey from initial enthusiasm at the novel gimmick to anxiety over real-world usability.
Sadly they’re going to lose all their money or, even worse, find a way to pay back the VC.
- Comment on JavaScript's days are numbered 1 year ago:
This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.
They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.
Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.
The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
So you could hava “Delta decent airlines” and “Delta fucking shit piss-stained seats threadbare aircraft $15 50ml Coke cans” then?
Totally different market sectors.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
If it’s all in writing you can’t just force another company to do what you want. What you can do is wriggle, twist and delay until it becomes too expensive for the smaller company to continue to pursue.
However judges are more than well aware of this technique and will allow the plaintiff to accrue costs against Legal Aid (paid for by government).
So what usually happens:
- Small co files against large co for using same name
- Large co produces huge response document which is all piss and wind
- Small co says they can’t afford the costs to answer each point
- Judge permits Small Co to use Legal Aid.
- Large co offers to settle. (E.g. you’re a 3 person sandwich shop. They offer you £10m. No more work, no more hassle)
If Small Co is energetic, young and courageous, they may choose to fight to the death. But Legal Aid has a limit…
- Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb 1 year ago:
Thank you, I’ve saved that for a quiet moment.
- Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb 1 year ago:
Yeah man, that scratches the itch!
- Comment on Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them 1 year ago:
Yorkshire here. Get a train on the east coast mainline to Leeds (they’re hourly) and increase your sample size to include Northern accents this improving the quality of your report from “being south of Watford”.
- Comment on US to build new nuclear gravity bomb 1 year ago:
Yeah I also wondered if “nuclear gravity” was some fascinating new branch of physics.
Got real disappointed when I realised that it meant dropping 'em.
- Comment on PEACHES COME FROM A CAN 1 year ago:
58 Gen X Brit here. Even I know the correct response. It was a popular tune.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 1 year ago:
I’m still with Brother. Dropped my last 6 year old Brother (printer not sibling) down the stairs, and replaced it with the updated model. No fuss, no jams, respectable use of toner. Easy WiFi setup (even easier if you know how to allocate it a static IP in router DHCP settings).
Would still recommend, still a Brand Loyal customer.
- Comment on FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs 1 year ago:
All perfectly legal (unless sanctions forbid it).
But in that case they wouldn’t need any fake IDs.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 1 year ago:
I 100% agree with this. Sadly, rule #3 applies to me (my job involves dealing with banks and lawyers).
I have had two HP inkjet printers which were unmitigated dogshit. Money-grabbing, thrown together pieces of shit. You get more types of jams than at a craft jam shop.
Five years ago, moved to a Brother laser printer. Little difference in purchase cost. AND IT NEVER FAILS.
I’m now on my second (dropped first one downstairs when moving house) and it is just as reliable.
Each to their own, but for me: Brother Laser Printer every time.
- Comment on FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs 1 year ago:
Who pays them?
- Comment on FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs 1 year ago:
Wouldn’t the ID need to be associated with a verifiable green card? (Again, not an expert in US employment)
- Comment on FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs 1 year ago:
Does no-one check the damn IDs, ffs? It’s a simple matter of typing some numbers into a computer.
I don’t know about the U.S. but in the UK where I’m from, “illegally hiring a non-UK citizen” would be a criminal offence for the hiring company. How are they going to tax them?
- Comment on Why Is Britain Retreating from Global Leadership on Climate Action? 1 year ago:
Brexit + economic carnage + small country with little heavy industry -> please let us sit one round out to dig our way out of that fucking economic shambles and then we’ll be right back on the Climate train handing out HS2 lanyards.
- Comment on Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network "Xfinity 10G" despite cable's slower speeds. 1 year ago:
Brit here, Leeds centre. ISP is “City Fibre”. Fibre-to-property. 512Mbps. £27/month.
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short 1 year ago:
He’s going down for a long time, and personally I think he’s an over-confident, misguided fool.
But I don’t think he’s a crook, in the sense that he originally set out to be dishonest from day one.
I think his well-intentioned, cocky plans turned to shit when he found himself playing a game of cryptopoly with other people’s real money and landed on the "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass ‘Go’. Do not collect £200“ square.
I feel ever so slightly sorry for him. His entire life is now fucked.
- Comment on Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting 1 year ago:
*“BLOODY”
- Comment on Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion. 1 year ago:
UK here. Can they do the maths for us too please?. Just a few billion would let us employ a few thousand more doctors… That’d be awesome…Thx.
- Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. 1 year ago:
No worries, panic over! Unless someone else knows something else…
- Comment on Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds 1 year ago:
He’s bound to read it here. What better place to write it.
My friend does not use platforms like this. I know him better than you do.
- Comment on At this point I am here for one reason - to receive messages. 1 year ago:
I just sent you one.
- Comment on Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds 1 year ago:
I’m in my late fifties, and my best friend who regularly takes me hiking (he’s ex-Coldstream Guards) is a Brexiteer and I’m a Remainer.
We meet maybe once every couple of months, and it’s always the first thing he wants to talk about - he’s firmly in the “this is not the Brexit I voted for” camp.
I don’t want to bad mouth him because he’s my dearest of friends but give it a rest mate. I want talk about who’s playing at our local dive bar next week, I’m not bothered about Brexit any more.
- Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. 1 year ago:
Ditto. Happy Malwarebytes customer here. Would be very interested to hear the issue.